Video by Sarayuth Pinthong | 502nd Air Base Wing | 12.23.2020
Episode 6: "Awoken Memoirs; stories of the Airman Heritage Museum", Women in the Air Force (WAF). The WAF was formed in 1948 when President Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, allowing women to serve directly on the military. With the separation of the Air Force from the Army, the Air Force gained both the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and Army Nurses Corps personnel to......
Video by Sarayuth Pinthong | 502nd Air Base Wing | 12.16.2020
The Army Air Service used over 5,000 Jennies to train pilots during World War I. This basic trainer was both inexpensive and easy to repair. In fact, Air Cadets learned to make their own repair--valuable knowledge when they were forced to land in a cow pasture some distance from the field. Cadets accumulated 50-60 hours in Jennies, then shipped out to France for advanced training in aircraft......
Video by Sarayuth Pinthong | 502nd Air Base Wing | 12.04.2020
Episode 4: "Awoken Memoirs; stories of the Airman Heritage Museum" introduces Tent City. The most noticeable shortage at Lackland was housing. With hundreds of two-story “mobilization” barracks and one-story tarpaper-covered “theater of operations” shelters built during World War II. Lackland had a rated emergency training capacity of 27,500. When this was exceeded in early July 1950,......
Video by Sarayuth Pinthong | 502nd Air Base Wing | 11.13.2020
Episode 2: The Museum of "Awoken Memoirs; stories of the Airman Heritage Museum" introduces the Tuskegee gallery and its Airmen. They were responsible for supplying, equipping and feeding the large contingent of Tuskegee Airmen in various Allied theaters of operation to include bases in Italy – especially Ramitelli Air Base. The Tuskegee enlisted corps thrived on discipline and teamwork,......
Video by Sarayuth Pinthong | 502nd Air Base Wing | 11.06.2020
Episode 1: The Museum of “Awoken Memoirs; stories of the Airman Heritage Museum” takes audiences inside for a tour of displays and exhibitions within its walls. The museum collects, researches, preserves, interprets and presents the United States Air Force, along with predecessor organizations, Enlisted Corps history, heritage, and traditions to develop Airmen today for tomorrow. The......
Video by Andrew C. Patterson | 502nd Air Base Wing | 11.02.2020
The Airman Heritage Museum is more than just a building that contains objects frozen in time. It includes a portion of the history and heritage that helped create the organization we identify as the United States Air Force. We have produced ‘Awoken Memoirs; stories of the Airman Heritage Museum’, consisting of six episodes, to focus on its legacy. https://www.dvidshub.net/feature/museummondays...
